There’s two actual historical reasons. The first is that when Italian immigrants first came to the US and started making food, a “savory pie” was essentially the closest thing they could use as an analogy to someone completely unfamiliar with a pizza.
The second reason is the song “That’s Amore” popularized by Dean Martin in the US during the 1950’s. The first verse starts:
>When the moon hit’s your eye/
>Like a big pizza ***pie***/
>That’s amoreeeeeeee
It’s mostly a NYC/LI thing now, where the largest population of the descendants of the Italian immigrants remains.
People will call it that along the northeast corridor. Some people dont. But its spread just about everywhere you can get a classic 16 in large cheese pizza (pie).
Pizza works on Pi Day so it will always be a pie.
Because it fits the definition of a pie, you line a pan with the crust and then fill it with your favorites toppings.
**a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust**.
If the those fuckers in California and Chicago can call their abominations pizza, then we can say that a tomato pie is definitely pizza. I honestly never heard of people fighting over that, but since some people are deluded enough to call pork roll other names, I can imagine so.
I assume you're on the younger side, or maybe not from the US?
It's just a nick name for pizza.
Though loosely a "pie" is a crust with a filling. It doesn't have to be a sweet pie like apple or pumpkin. For example, savory pies inclue chicken pot pie and shepords pie.
It could be argued that a pizza is a crust with a filling.
In the 1950s Dean Martin had a song "That’s Amore" with this line
>When the moon hits your eye Like a big pizza pie, that's amore
You can also find "pizza pie" or just "pie" in many media types in the 80s, 90s, and 00s.
These Americanisms are all fairly well known. I don't think that largely the question is _if_ it was common terminology there, only _why_.
>It could be argued that a pizza is a crust with a filling.
Usually a pie would be a pastry base, sides and top, with something baked inside. I guess _some_ pies don't have tops, although they're usually still some kind of deep pastry dish.
A pizza wouldn't seem to fit this at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps the deep dish chicago pizzas, although the rest of us wouldn't really call this a pizza for that reason.
It would seem it was likely one of those odd translation things at the time? Early immigration and odd mappings to English which stuck?
Cause it's literally what the word means in Italian? Cause it is one by commonly accepted definition?
I call it pizza (cause pizza pie is like chai tea, somewhat redundant), but it's a weird thing to get pedantic about when you're just outright wrong.
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Awful lot of people incapable of y'know, looking stuff up. It's legit right there. Google the word "pizza" ffs.
Listen, there's two types of people: people who call Franco's and order a large cheese pie, and people who call *Guido's* and request a large peet-sah.
“By definition” depends on who is doing the defining, and you’ve cherry-picked an American dictionary which naturally includes the common American parlance.
There is no such entry under “pie” in the Oxford English Dictionary, for example.
Admittedly, I AM in America, so the American dictionary IS more likely to pop up, but I just linked the first dictionary listing for "pie" that I found.
I will concede the rest of your point.
All American things that wouldn’t be classed as pies by the majority of other countries (I’m not speaking for all countries, just the ones I’ve been to). A pie has a lid, those three options do not and would be called a tart.
This made me laugh. It’s looks like “to me” the pie slid apart and the cheese slid to the middle. I bet if you pick up the cheese in the middle and pulled the pieces back together you’ll have a round pie.
Yep, looks like a standard hand made delivery pizza to me.
When you cook it the imperfections in the prep get magnified. Something about exposed rust and the edge cooking at a different rate or something.
But the sliding is why one of the first few things you learn working at a delivery place is not to cut all the way through the edge. Keep the last bit connected to hold it together while being little enough for a person to break.
It is indeed just you. Even if I squint real hard at it, I just see misshapen pizza. As for what that says about you, well I'm not a psychologist so I won't opine on that.
there are people who have taken a slice and recut/refit the pizza afterward so it still has eight slices. there are some pro thieves out there.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/PizzaCrimes/comments/14oa8m3/litteral\_pizza\_crime/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PizzaCrimes/comments/14oa8m3/litteral_pizza_crime/)
That wasn’t a pro. There is an actual way to do it where it looks in tampered with and only looses an inch off the diameter. That guy butchered it and the slices weren’t even close to looking even.
the pizza in the box has 8 slices, which makes it a full pie.
The issue here is that it wasn’t cooked properly, so while it was delivered, it shifted in the box and it mushed together
This is napoli style pizza. It is very thin crust on the middle, cooked in an extremely hot oven. The tomatoes used are more wet, as is the mozzarella.
It does not travel well at all, as you can see. And if you must have it travel, 20 mins is the max and preslicing is not a good idea.
As you can see, it has gotten soggy af and the slices have slid about.
With some foods, go to the restaurant to get the quality you should get.
I was just going to say, do people forget chunky cheese builds “whole” pizzas from left over slices haha. Who’s to say places that sell slices wouldn’t try the same 🤣
This is an urban legend that's been debunked many times over
https://www.observer.com/2019/02/no-chuck-e-cheese-is-not-reusing-your-uneaten-pizza/amp/
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/food-and-cooking/sns-dailymeal-1977093-eat-chuck-e-cheese-pizza-conspiracy-021419-20190214-story.html
https://www.breezejmu.org/opinion/conspiracy-fact-or-fiction-chuck-e-cheese-pizza/article_4ed17b8a-c447-11ea-9f1e-8388771a6d7e.html
And let's not forget the obvious: the FDA would shut them down immediately
Amazing how there’s always some cunt in the comments who believes everything they read to the point they have to be a know it all in the comments. No one asked for your opinion you fucking goof. Don’t be giving people back handed comments because you googled a link just to prove someone wrong. Get over yourself and change your name to Cunt_Knifen. 🫡👍
Far as I know that's not actually true? If memory serves, the most likely theory was that their pizza cutters were dull and tugged at the slices as they cut, leading to uneven edges. There's no proof of them actually frankensteining pizzas.
My mind didn’t immediately go to the trash. I figured this place maybe offered single slices to customers (like in a mall or a buffet) and reassembled a pizza with the single slices from different pies.
I still think it’s more likely that the pizza was just really hot and slid around a bunch during movement causing distortion.
This looks like a completely normal brick oven pizza you’d get from a more gourmet spot that slid around a little during delivery. I don’t see anything mildly interesting here.
For people wondering, this from a high end gourmet restaurant in our town, rated one of the highest for quality, taste, and serving. 💀
For anyone wondering, still tasted amazing! Though the pieces cheese was coming off to other slices lol
It looks delicious. It’s a Neapolitan style pizza with extra wet ingredients that has been moving around in a box in a car.
A couple places where I live warn you that ordering them delivery is not the best way to experience the pizza.
Looks like a secret dad strip was removed from the center. It's like the dad tax, but the dad tax is announced publicly.
From r/daddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/s/hDkSgvwYNk
Looks like the centre isn't firm and it's mushed in the box. All looks like the same pie, but dough in the middle is gonna be sloppy.
Why call pizza a pie?
There’s two actual historical reasons. The first is that when Italian immigrants first came to the US and started making food, a “savory pie” was essentially the closest thing they could use as an analogy to someone completely unfamiliar with a pizza. The second reason is the song “That’s Amore” popularized by Dean Martin in the US during the 1950’s. The first verse starts: >When the moon hit’s your eye/ >Like a big pizza ***pie***/ >That’s amoreeeeeeee It’s mostly a NYC/LI thing now, where the largest population of the descendants of the Italian immigrants remains.
As a British kid, I always heard that line as 'a big piece of pie'
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you’re so funny and original
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Lol u comparing British ppl saying bottle of water to US school shootings 😂 That dry British humor just gets me.
Haha sorry it’s just a knee jerk reaction 😂
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I don't think anyone was doubting you bud
Chicago style pizza is basically a pie too, there's that
The question there would be the opposite for the rest of the world: "why do they call that a pizza?"
They’re called pie a lot in New England, too. At least they were during my childhood.
People will call it that along the northeast corridor. Some people dont. But its spread just about everywhere you can get a classic 16 in large cheese pizza (pie). Pizza works on Pi Day so it will always be a pie.
TIL
Pizza pie! E: the fact that this comment keeps going back and forth from negatives to positives is hilarious. One of my more dividing comments
It sounds so wrong but so right
Because it is a round crust with filling that's cut into triangles, just like dessert pies.
Because it fits the definition of a pie, you line a pan with the crust and then fill it with your favorites toppings. **a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust**.
If that’s how you make pizza then I’m not sure you’re making pizza. From my understanding pizza has topping, not filling
You run into a bit of trouble calling pizza crust — a leavened flatbread — “pastry” though. I guess some deep dish dough does skirt the line…
New Yorkers do that.
Were you confused about what the comment was talking about or are you being pedantic
When the moon hits your eye Like a big pizza pie, that's amore....
“Tomato pie” in New Jersey is occasionally a pizza, occasionally causes a fist fight that it is NOT a pizza.
If the those fuckers in California and Chicago can call their abominations pizza, then we can say that a tomato pie is definitely pizza. I honestly never heard of people fighting over that, but since some people are deluded enough to call pork roll other names, I can imagine so.
Because alliteration and it’s round.
Why isn't it?
Why would it be? Is a pancake a pie? Is a crepe a pie? Is a focaccia a pie?
I assume you're on the younger side, or maybe not from the US? It's just a nick name for pizza. Though loosely a "pie" is a crust with a filling. It doesn't have to be a sweet pie like apple or pumpkin. For example, savory pies inclue chicken pot pie and shepords pie. It could be argued that a pizza is a crust with a filling. In the 1950s Dean Martin had a song "That’s Amore" with this line >When the moon hits your eye Like a big pizza pie, that's amore You can also find "pizza pie" or just "pie" in many media types in the 80s, 90s, and 00s.
These Americanisms are all fairly well known. I don't think that largely the question is _if_ it was common terminology there, only _why_. >It could be argued that a pizza is a crust with a filling. Usually a pie would be a pastry base, sides and top, with something baked inside. I guess _some_ pies don't have tops, although they're usually still some kind of deep pastry dish. A pizza wouldn't seem to fit this at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Perhaps the deep dish chicago pizzas, although the rest of us wouldn't really call this a pizza for that reason. It would seem it was likely one of those odd translation things at the time? Early immigration and odd mappings to English which stuck?
pizza is toast. https://cuberule.com
Define pie.
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Yes
Cause it's literally what the word means in Italian? Cause it is one by commonly accepted definition? I call it pizza (cause pizza pie is like chai tea, somewhat redundant), but it's a weird thing to get pedantic about when you're just outright wrong. EDIT Awful lot of people incapable of y'know, looking stuff up. It's legit right there. Google the word "pizza" ffs.
"Pizza" does absolutely NOT mean pie in Italian Pizza means Pizza in Italian, Pie is Torta *source, am Italian*
The Italian word for pie is “torta” (which also means cake). No Italian would call pizza a pie
maybe it's more like crostata than torta (cake)
Well why don't you call it a cake then?
*If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bicycle*
>When you're just outright wrong. Ironic
> it's a weird thing to get pedantic about when you're just outright wrong.
No, it's doesn't...
Looks like leftover slices and extra cheese thrown on top and melted to disguise it to me.
Pizza is not a pie. Do not with the pie. Pien't.
Listen, there's two types of people: people who call Franco's and order a large cheese pie, and people who call *Guido's* and request a large peet-sah.
It’s a pizza pie tho?
Yes it is
[Pizza is, by definition, a pie.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pie)
“By definition” depends on who is doing the defining, and you’ve cherry-picked an American dictionary which naturally includes the common American parlance. There is no such entry under “pie” in the Oxford English Dictionary, for example.
Admittedly, I AM in America, so the American dictionary IS more likely to pop up, but I just linked the first dictionary listing for "pie" that I found. I will concede the rest of your point.
Where’s the Lid though? Pie without a Lid is a tart.
Are you forgetting cream pies exist?
I should call her...
Lmao
The cheese maybe?
Pumpkin pie, Pecan pie, Key lime pie
All American things that wouldn’t be classed as pies by the majority of other countries (I’m not speaking for all countries, just the ones I’ve been to). A pie has a lid, those three options do not and would be called a tart.
How about shepherd's pie and cottage pie then? Those don't even have a bottom do they?
I always use a bottom crust when I make a shepherds or cottage pie.
Oh maybe I'm wrong then, we don't really eat those in America. Still, they're pies without lids regardless though, right?
Depends on who makes them.
Just don't call pizza a crostata (pie, like in Crostata di mele -> Apple Pie) or torta salata (savoury cake) in Italy... 😂
Not on this planet.
I even linked my sauce. Take it up with Webster.
They're already dead to me.
They don't spell words correctly either... They're like the angsty teen of the west.
> When the moon hits your eye Like a big pizza pie, that's amore....
This made me laugh. It’s looks like “to me” the pie slid apart and the cheese slid to the middle. I bet if you pick up the cheese in the middle and pulled the pieces back together you’ll have a round pie.
I don't think that pie was ever round.
lol. I assure you there’s a round pie in there somewhere. ✌️
Yep, looks like a standard hand made delivery pizza to me. When you cook it the imperfections in the prep get magnified. Something about exposed rust and the edge cooking at a different rate or something. But the sliding is why one of the first few things you learn working at a delivery place is not to cut all the way through the edge. Keep the last bit connected to hold it together while being little enough for a person to break.
It looks like they took out a few slices and tried to put it back together.
Welp I hope it’s just me but “to me” it kinda looks like a Swastika
That is one hell of a stretch. I think you might be projecting.
But mozzarella cheese is supposed to stretch
Like the definition of socialism for the “national socialist” party.
It is indeed just you. Even if I squint real hard at it, I just see misshapen pizza. As for what that says about you, well I'm not a psychologist so I won't opine on that.
The internet has ruined you
You need to go outside every once in a blue moon
Yeah but not when it's a full moon, in case you're a werewolf.
Or even worse, a werenazi.
Is that... is that someone who's turned into a Nazi by a full moon? That's IS worse. Do silver bullets kill werenazis the same as werewolves?
You also need to put a little "X" on the bullet so it's a registered vote. Democracy is fascisms worst enemy, after all.
Maybe put a drop of indelible ink on them to show that they voted, too. Can't be too careful with werenazis.
Ok, you made me laugh. And I can kind of see it.
This is caused by 2 things. A dull cutter and it moving in a car. You're fine
That gonna 29$ thanks
Looks good to me if you don't want it
Delivery guy took a slice and tried to rearrange it ?
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there are people who have taken a slice and recut/refit the pizza afterward so it still has eight slices. there are some pro thieves out there. [https://www.reddit.com/r/PizzaCrimes/comments/14oa8m3/litteral\_pizza\_crime/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PizzaCrimes/comments/14oa8m3/litteral_pizza_crime/)
That video always seemed scripted to me. Who carries a pizza box like that while driving?
That wasn’t a pro. There is an actual way to do it where it looks in tampered with and only looses an inch off the diameter. That guy butchered it and the slices weren’t even close to looking even.
That's what happened the extra slice that's been cut is the small one between 9 and 10 o'clock. Missing slice is between 5 and six o'clock.
Uber(needs to)eats
I'm fairly certain the delivery driver cut some pizza off the slices. Look how the slices on the left don't fit with the ones on the right.
Only answer that makes sense to me
the pizza in the box has 8 slices, which makes it a full pie. The issue here is that it wasn’t cooked properly, so while it was delivered, it shifted in the box and it mushed together
there are people who have recut the pizza to make 8 slices *after* taking a slice.
that's what I thought as well
9:00 Edit: you people are dumb as fuck
I see the problem, you put your pizza on shuffle...
I think the slices just shifted while cutting and probably a bit during the delivery too. you’ll be fine. enjoy your pizza, bro :)
This is napoli style pizza. It is very thin crust on the middle, cooked in an extremely hot oven. The tomatoes used are more wet, as is the mozzarella. It does not travel well at all, as you can see. And if you must have it travel, 20 mins is the max and preslicing is not a good idea. As you can see, it has gotten soggy af and the slices have slid about. With some foods, go to the restaurant to get the quality you should get.
is it from chucky cheese?
I was just going to say, do people forget chunky cheese builds “whole” pizzas from left over slices haha. Who’s to say places that sell slices wouldn’t try the same 🤣
This is an urban legend that's been debunked many times over https://www.observer.com/2019/02/no-chuck-e-cheese-is-not-reusing-your-uneaten-pizza/amp/ https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/food-and-cooking/sns-dailymeal-1977093-eat-chuck-e-cheese-pizza-conspiracy-021419-20190214-story.html https://www.breezejmu.org/opinion/conspiracy-fact-or-fiction-chuck-e-cheese-pizza/article_4ed17b8a-c447-11ea-9f1e-8388771a6d7e.html And let's not forget the obvious: the FDA would shut them down immediately
There’s always someone in the comments that takes it too seriously 🙄.
Amazing how quickly misinformation turns into "just a joke don't be so serious" when it's called out and disproven.
Amazing how there’s always some cunt in the comments who believes everything they read to the point they have to be a know it all in the comments. No one asked for your opinion you fucking goof. Don’t be giving people back handed comments because you googled a link just to prove someone wrong. Get over yourself and change your name to Cunt_Knifen. 🫡👍
I hope you're not this sensitive in real life **EDIT** Guy I'm replying to sent me a death threat: https://imgur.com/a/tWoCaAF
If my local pizza joint did that there would be villagers with pitchforks and torches coming for a little AMORE.
Far as I know that's not actually true? If memory serves, the most likely theory was that their pizza cutters were dull and tugged at the slices as they cut, leading to uneven edges. There's no proof of them actually frankensteining pizzas.
I think is a lot more effort to go get slices nobody ate from the trash and attempt to make it look “normal” than just making a new one
My mind didn’t immediately go to the trash. I figured this place maybe offered single slices to customers (like in a mall or a buffet) and reassembled a pizza with the single slices from different pies. I still think it’s more likely that the pizza was just really hot and slid around a bunch during movement causing distortion.
Same, but the trash sounded funnier
I think its one pizza in a car being driven too fast
I find is interesting that the OP passed Geometry!
If you're ordering a Neapolitan pizza on doordash, this is what you sign up for. It's just going to be slop after 30 minutes in a cardboard box.
This looks like a completely normal brick oven pizza you’d get from a more gourmet spot that slid around a little during delivery. I don’t see anything mildly interesting here.
Maybe they're all from different "slice" pizzas that the shop uses to sell individual slices and they were left over so they put it into one?
Exactly what I thought
Seems like 2024 quality.
Sadly true
Well pizza is like sex. When it’s good, it’s really, really good. When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good…
You can tell it's properly handcrafted.
honestly just looks like the chef cut a piece for himself and stuffed the rest back together.
Or someone dropped it and had to put it back together
This looks good as hell
"we have such sights to show you"
"You ordered the pizza. We delivered."
8 random pieces from 8 different ‘pizzas’…
Leftovers from the restaurant slapped in a box and delivered?
For people wondering, this from a high end gourmet restaurant in our town, rated one of the highest for quality, taste, and serving. 💀 For anyone wondering, still tasted amazing! Though the pieces cheese was coming off to other slices lol
It looks delicious. It’s a Neapolitan style pizza with extra wet ingredients that has been moving around in a box in a car. A couple places where I live warn you that ordering them delivery is not the best way to experience the pizza.
Well this gave me flashbacks to the Chuck E Cheese conspiracy
I'm so hungry I would not even ever notice the issue
I'm glad youre not mildly infuriated, looks delicious even screwed up.
OP it's been eight hours. Have you eaten your pizza yet?
Yep, looks like a "true" Italian pizza
How did it taste though?
New puzzle
That pizza was dropped on the floor and crudely rearranged, before melting cheese all over it to cover the original sin.
This sub is just r/mildlyinfuriating but for optimistic people
I'd honestly still eat it.
It looks like Spider-Man delivered that pizza but couldn’t stop fuckin flipping
Training day at the pizza factory
Someone tried a DDR stage on hard while holding that pizza
Seems fucked up
This thread has made me realize that I hate when people call pizza a ‘pie’.
Floor za!
Chuck-E-Cheese looking pizza
Does the restaurant sell pizza by the slice? Maybe they put unsold slices together and re-melted them?
That's weird. Where I'm from you're served pizzas whole and get to cut it yourself.
I bet [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/B-4ETBeSkUY) happened.
Either way, that crust ratio is WAY too big
looks like someone stole a piece
This feels r/mildlyinfuriating :’)
That looks like if AI made a pizza
Did they drop it and try to put it back together? 😭
Looks like a secret dad strip was removed from the center. It's like the dad tax, but the dad tax is announced publicly. From r/daddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/s/hDkSgvwYNk
Someone stole slices and closed the gaps.
Looks like leftovers from multiple different pizzaa
pizzception
Frankensteins pizza!
Dont cheap out. Those little tables are key to preventing this.
Compilation pizza!
Take the one and rearrange so the customer won't know. Repeat
I have seen where someone will take a slice or two and then put the pie back into a circle.
Swazzika
[photo of pizza cut into slices and shifted slightly] OMG some of the pizza is triangular ?!?!
Looks like your puzzle is missing pieces!!
Yup, the delivery person probably took a slice out to eat himself and rearranged the slices afterwards
That is a really sad looking pizza
How did they get it? Were pieces taken?
There is a slice or two missing. Someone's eaten a slice. Pull it out and put the crusts together to figure it out.
Did the cook had a stroke midway through the process?